Word: superbness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What followed was some remarkable tennis and a big letdown. Sedgman, in superb condition, took exactly 49 minutes to blow Larsen off the court, 6-1, 6-2, 6-0. Tennis buffs could not recall another time in the 70-year history of the men's tournament when the U.S. champion had taken such a one-sided thrashing. It was hard to say whether any part of Sedgman's game was notably better than the rest as he fed Larsen a paralyzing assortment of burning serves, deadly volleys and deep, sure ground strokes...
Ballerina Hayden's violent wanton was a triumph; Hugh Laing played the mandarin with implacable simplicity. Without Bartok's superb score, Mandarin might have been merely a mediocre and rather crass affair, but the crashing, nervous music had kept the emotional pitch high and tight. As a result, the audience was too preoccupied to worry much about a few tag ends of murky symbolism that Choreographer Todd Bolender had worked in, e.g., a blind girl who wanders fitfully about the stage for most of the final scene...
This Is War! by David Douglas Duncan. Superb photographs that give an unrivaled sense of what Korea has been like for the foot soldiers who slugged it out (TIME, June...
This Is War! by David Douglas Duncan. Superb photographs that give an unrivaled sense of what Korea has been like for the foot soldiers who slugged it out (TIME, June...
This Is War! by David Douglas Duncan. Superb photographs that give an unrivaled sense of what Korea has been like for the foot soldiers who slugged it out (TIME, June...